Trunk.



S. W. BONSALL.

TRUNK.

APPLIGATI'ON FILED MAB..30,1907.

Patented Sept. 15,1908.

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

SEYMOUR W. BONSALL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TRUNK.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SEYMOUR W. BONSALL, a citizen of the UnitedStates', residing in the borough of Manhattan, city and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Trunks, of which the following is a specification. 7

The present invention has relation to means whereby drawers in the swinging trays of trunks may be made more convenient and useful, and may be given a greater individual capacity.

Trays have been hitherto used in travelers trunks which are hung upon pivots or leather loops 5 or the like.

separable hinges on one edge, so that the whole tray may be swung forward out of the trunk when the latter is on one end. These trays are usually employed in connection with other devices which take up a large proportion of the spacewithin the trunk, and such trays are therefore usually made quite shallow. The consequence is that when they are provided with drawers, the horizontal depth of such drawersis much restricted, and they cannot be used for many articles for which they would be suited if they could be made deeper.

My present invention has for itsobject to provide means whereby drawers and other movable containers used in traysin the manner above described may be made as deep as desired, and their usefulness may thus be enhanced.

The invention is illustrated in certain preferred forms in the accompanying drawings wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of a wardrobe trunk with a swinging tray provided with my invention, the drawer being removed, Fig. 2 is a side view partly in section of said tray with the drawer in place, Fig. 3 is a front view of the same with the drawer compartment closed, Fig. 4is asimilar view of a modification and Fig. 5 is a detail.

The body of the trunk is shown at 1 and the swinging tray at 2. The lower-most compartment 3 is simply provided with a tilting cover 4 which may be secured by The upper two compartments 6, 7, are constructed in accordance with my invention. Each of these is a complete box or container in itself and two dimensions of each fit the depth and width respectively of the main tray 2.

The compartment 6 is pivoted to the two sides of the main tray at 8, that is to say at the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 30, 1907. Serial No. 365,481.

4 stitute for each pivot 8.

Patented Sept. 15, 1908.

two forward lower corners, so that it may be tipped out at will into the position shown in Fig. 2. It is supported in this outward position by the flexible tape or cord 9.

The drawer 10, slides in the upper part of the container 6, and the depth of the drawer from front to back is thus practically equal to the vertical depth of said container when tipped back into theclosed position shown in Fi 3.

lhe compartment 7 is supported in the same manner as 6, the tape 9 being shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. This container differs, however, from 6 in having no drawer.

In order-not to jam at the top, each container 6, 7, has a slanting top as shown. Consequently container 6 will not find a bearing on the top of 7 and therefore I prefer to provide ears 11 on the sides of the container 6 which act as stops to prevent the container from being pushed in too far when closed.

' In Figs. 4 and 5 are shown a modified form of stop which retains or supports the container both when pulled open and when pushed back. This takes the form of a sub- Instead of a lain rivet, bolt or in, I employ a bent bar 12 av ing a rounded portion upon which the side of the container may turn. One portion of each bar 12 is turned vertically, as -shown, the whole bar being fixed immovably in the side of the tray. In this position the back of the container comes against the upright bar 12 when the container is drawn forward, and is thus supported in this osition. At the same time, in the closed posltion the container is supported by the bottom coming in contact with the same bar.

It will be seen that, by the use of this invention a much greater horizontal capacity is available in drawers and containers for trunks than is hadwhere these simply pull in and out on horizontal sup orts. In the latter case only the horizonta depth of the swinging tray is available, while in my improved device, the drawer or box may be made much deeper than this from front to back, because, when closed within the main tray or swinging support, as shown at 7 ,this dimension assumes a vertical position and can therefore be easily accommodated by the swinging tray whose longest dimension is vertical.

The importance of a maximum space from front to back in a drawer of limited width within a trunk, is found in being able to reduce the vertical depth for a given total capacity, so that articles are not piled on each other as much as they must be where the vertical depth is greater. Moreover certain articles can be packed flat without folding, where the drawer or boX is deep enough.

What I claim is 1. A trunk comprising a main swinging tray, a container pivoted near its lower front corners within said tray, a drawer carried by and sliding on said container in a horizontal plane when the container is opened, and means for limiting the movement of said con tainer around its pivots, substantially as described.

2. A trunk comprising a container and a bent supporting bar on which said container is arranged to turn, one portion of said bar being located so as to act as a stop for out Ward movement of the container.

3. A trunk comprising a container and. a bent supporting bar on which said container is arranged to turn, one portion of said bar being located so as to act as a stop for both inward and outward movement of the 0011- tainer, substantially as described.

4. A trunk comprising a fixed supporting bar having an upright portion and a rounded horizontal portion, and a tilting container pivoted upon the rounded portion of said bar, substantially as described.

SEYMOUR XV. BONSALL. Witnesses V. BIeELow, JAMEs HARRINGTON. 

